"In the run-up to the 2016 national election, many issues involving election law have come to the fore. This volume will explore such timely topics as campaign finance and the corporate funding of elections in the aftermath of Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission (2010), which opened the door to unlimited corporate and private funding of candidates in federal elections. The volume will also investigate the effects of SCOTUS's ruling to...

The High Plains Highway is a 222-mile corridor that begins near Kit Carson and ends at I-80 in Nebraska. It was identified as a corridor connector in the Eastern Colorado Mobility Study. The High Plains Highway Corridor Coalition (HPHC) -a formal association of towns and counties along the corridor - asked the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to assist the member communities in developing a plan for the corridor to anticipate and prioritize...

Explores the topic of American cities, discussing green initiatives, changing demographics, industry, policing, the arts, and more.

"[A collection of articles exploring LGBTQ] issues .... [including] the role of non-traditional same-sex families, and expanded protections for transgender people under the framework of civil rights"--Provided by publisher.

From debates around the high pressures of the corporate work environment to those around the present day labor movement, discussions about work prevail in popular thinking and the media. Do the wealthiest, most powerful corporations today reward their white-collar employees with outstanding vacation and family-leave packages or exploit their workforce by demanding unreasonable hours and unrealistic goals? And how do their blue-collar employees fare?...

"Digital technology has transformed our lives so completely that we hardly recognize it and so quickly that we have yet to grasp its implications. No industry has been left untouched; every aspect of how we communicate and how and where we get our information has been affected. We are connected as never before. Even the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has said that a cellphone can contain the"sum of an individual's private life"--surely a...

This volume examines the conflict surrounding the South China Sea, presenting an overview, and reviewing territorial disputes and the law. Competing claims, environmental concerns, diplomacy, deterrence and form of navigation are issues of concern, as well as sovereignty and codes of conduct among the countries involved.